Boynton Beach‘s redevelopment agency will discuss 500 Ocean, a development city officials say is critical to sparking growth downtown. Tuesday, the agency will discuss the next step in bringing the estimated $4.5 million development to the southwest corner of Federal Highway and Ocean Avenue. The item was delayed in December while the developer sought money…
Lake Worth, FL; February 12, 2015 – The Lake Worth Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA) and Community Partners (also known as Housing Partnership Inc.) were recently awarded $500,000 in catalytic grant funds for neighborhood and community improvements in Lake Worth. The CRA and Community Partners partnered in 2014 to apply for these competitive funds to be…
North Miami’s community redevelopment agency is still working to extend its life beyond 2016 and the board took some steps toward that goal at their last meeting. The city council, acting as the CRA board, approved a redevelopment plan and schedule, discussed the CRA’s budget and decided against hiring a new executive director. The city…
PORT ST. LUCIE — A divided City Council voted Monday to enter into exclusive negotiations with a Jupiter businessman and Treasure Coast land developer to sell the former Digital Domain building for $15 million. James Hall, by a 3-2 vote, earned the right to buy the 115,000-square-foot building in Tradition. Read full article
STUART — Redevelopment of city-owned property, stalled since 2013, could be moving forward. Read full article
The Boynton Beach Community Redevelopment Agency’s attorney will announce his resignation tonight. He is pursuing another job. Ken Spillias will be working for Ocean Ridge as the town’s attorney. Spillias, who works at the firm Lewis, Longman and Walker, has worked as the town’s attorney since 1999, but as an outside contractor, according to town…
The recent debate about Community Redevelopment Agencies (CRAs) appears to be an effort to mislead the public into believing that their tax dollars are being misused. This isn’t the case, and this inflammatory rhetoric, which pits residents against each other, can be extremely harmful to communities. It has been alleged that “some of South Florida’s…
BOYNTON BEACH — The Boynton Beach City Commission is expected to vote tonight on whether to allow a waterfront townhome community to be built along Federal Highway, a project strongly opposed by residents to the immediate south. But there’s a chance that the commission again will delay the vote, which has been postponed twice since December.…
BOYNTON BEACH — For the past nine months, David Grzech has fielded calls from The UPS Store customers who want to know if the store in the Boynton Plaza is open. It is. But it’s difficult to tell because the shopping center, anchored by what will be a new, modernized Publix, is under renovation. While the stores are…
WEST PALM BEACH — The light is green for West Palm Beach’s bicycle rental program, even though the bikes probably will be blue. The board of West Palm Beach’s Downtown Development Authority voted unanimously last week to close what would be a 10-year deal with consultant P3GM. Read full article
BOYNTON BEACH — The Boynton Beach Community Redevelopment Agency will host a free Movies in the Park event at 7 p.m Friday. The movie “Penguins of Madagascar” will play on a large inflatable screen at Ocean Avenue Amphitheater, 129 E. Ocean Ave. Attendees are encouraged to bring a beach chair or blanket. Food and beverages will…
MOUNT DORA — Described by residents and visitors as “charming” and “quaint,” Mount Dora needs to be protected, several residents say. And they say a proposal to allow 50-foot-tall screens at the EPIC Theatres location off U.S. Highway 441 between Target and Wal-Mart could usher in development of taller buildings in the downtown commercial area.…
